De•sert•ing
to abandon in a way considered disloyal or treacherous. [as of the Oxford English Dictionary]
<span>James Buchanan, Minister to Great Britain and former Secretary of State.Franklin Pierce, President of the United States.Stephen Douglas, U.S. Senator from Illinois.<span>Lewis Cass, Former U.S. Senator and 1848 presidential nominee from Michigan
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I may not be correct but I believe that Martin Luther King implied that if they were to protest with violent it would only result in more violence as a retaliation by the government. So by doing peaceful protest the government didnt have an actual solid reason to attack them, so when the government did enact violence on them it caught the attention of people around the world.
